Mineral Properties
Mineral, How So?
Rockin' Cycle
Vocabulary Rocks
Randomness
100
This property describes the shade created when light hits a mineral.
What is color?
100
A mineral has the ________ chemical structure throughout.
What is same?
100
This rock is formed by little bits of rock, shell, or other material fusing together to form a new rock.
What is sedimentary?
100
Two or more minerals.
What is rock?
100
This system processes the food you eat.
What is the "digestive system?"
200
This property uses Moh's scale to measure it.
What is hardness?
200
A mineral is "inorganic." This means it is __________.
What is non-living?
200
This type of rock forms from lava and magma.
What is igneous?
200
Naturally occuring, inorganic substance.
What is "mineral"?
200
These tiny sacs in the lungs enable gas exchange.
What are the "alveoli?"
300
This property refers to how a mineral breaks.
What is fracture?
300
True or False: Minerals must occur naturally in order to be classified as minerals.
What is "True"?
300
This type of rock is formed when heat and pressure transform a pre-existing rock into a new rock.
What is metamorphic?
300
A flat, cut plane of a mineral.
What is a "facet"?
300
This intensity of this type of storm is measured using the "Fujita" scale.
What is a tornado?
400
This property describes the shiny or dull nature of a mineral.
What is luster?
400
The geometric pattern specific to the shape minerals can take is called ________ .
What is crystalline structure?
400
True or false: Metamorphic rock can never be sedimentary rock.
What is False?
400
When magma hardens under ground, it creates this type of igneous rock.
What is "intrusive?"
400
Uplifting of seafloor plates during an underwater earthquake can create this.
What is a tsunami?
500
This prperty requires a white porcelain tile to observe.
What is streak?
500
The reason for which gems are valuable.
What is rarity?
500
The Rock Cycle is a closed system because __________ .
What is matter doesn't leave the system?
500
A word describing visible bands of minerals created in metamorphic rock.
What is "foliated"?
500
The white cliffs of Dover in England are made of this sedimentary rock.
What is limestone?
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